lo Report of the President. 



laboratories are fully and continuously used, and yet certain courses have 

 had to discontinue laboratory work altogether. The class in Biology 

 expected about 150 students; it has registered 306 and refused admission 

 to 85. A new course in Parasites expected 25 students and has registered 

 78. One course in Pomology, which last year numbered 80, has registered 

 this year 115. Plant-Breeding last year had 34 students, and now has 55, 

 with no laboratory available. The result is less effective teaching, and 

 warranted dissatisfaction on the part of both students and faculty. 



" The increased registration of regular four-year students in some of 

 the principal departments is shown in the following table: 



1908-09 1909-10 



Pomology 87 171 



Plant Pathology 51 76 



Farm Mechanics 107 116 



Field Crops 40 76 



Entomology and Biology 281 481 



Animal Husbandry 105 135 



Plant-Breeding 34 55 



Home Economics 14 46 



Plant Physiology 69 107 



" Regular students in their first and second years take much of their 

 work in the College of Arts and Sciences. The crowding of the College 

 of Agriculture at the present time is, therefore, due largely to the in- 

 creased registration of two years ago. The further great increase in 

 registration this year will cause two years hence, when these students 

 take practically all of their work in the College of Agriculture, a con- 

 gestion so great as to prevent effective teaching and to make laboratory 

 work in many courses impossible. 



" This means that either the College must be supplied with increased 

 facilities, or that many students will be turned away and not given the 

 training which they have come to the College to secure. A crisis in the 

 New York State College of Agriculture is imminent. There is every 

 reason to expect that the constant increase in registration of the past few 

 years will continue. If the work is to advance and if the policy of the 

 State to supply agricultural education to all of the young men and young 

 women of the State who apply is to be maintained, immediate action must 

 be taken to provide increased facilities." 



